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Doesn't this mean the Glasgow City Council is overstaffed and should layoff 20% of their workers?

• swarnie 4y ago
  100:80:100 model. 100% pay, 80% hours, 100% productivity. > Doesn't this mean the Glasgow City Council is overstaffed and should layoff 20% of their workers? Only if you think 100:100:100 for 40 hours a week is possible / realistic. Are you honestly operating at 100% effectiveness for every hour you work all week?
  • mythrwy 4y ago
    No, I'm certainly not operating at 100% for 40 hours. Maybe 25 good hours. I wonder how many hours Glascow City Council is hard at it currently? Maybe they could go down to a half a workday per week with no noticeable loss of productivity.
  • scrivna 4y ago
    So we think staff will work 100% for 4 days? Presumably the lost 20% is making tea, chatting to coworkers about sports, checking personal messages, pooping etc, seems unlikely that behaviour would change and productivity get to 100%. So 100:80:64 would be my guess as the outcome, a loss for tax payers.
    • ben_w 4y ago
      The argument (and I’m not saying it is or isn’t backed by sufficient evidence because I don’t know) is that the lost 20% is because we are physiologically not capable of retaining mental focus for 8 hours a day for 5 days in a row. There is some evidence for an equivalent claim for physical labour, which is part of the reason we do 40 hour weeks rather than 70, though again I don’t know how good the evidence really is. To put it another way, think of this as the mental equivalent to why we can’t run marathons at the pace we can do a 100m sprint.